Multi Array Sort help

[gte806e]

I've rtf 😃 and i've looked at past posts here on the board but still cant figure this thing out.

I have a multidimensional array for events.
$e1 = array();
$e1["name"] = "name";
$e1["date"] = someunixtimestamp;

$e2 = array();
$e2["name"] = "name";
$e2["date"] = someunixtimestamp;

$events = Array($e1, $e2);
I want to sort $events based on the date column.

What would be the best way to do this?

TIA

Jesse

[nemonoman]

[man]array_multisort[/man]?

[gte806e]

I read on multisort but still dont know how i'd tell it which filed to sort on.

Any help please?

[nemonoman]

Why not do this:

$eventname[]='name1';
$eventdate[]=date1;
$eventname[]='name2';
$eventdate[]=date2;

array_multisort($eventdate, $eventname);

[gte806e]

Well the problem is that is acutally much more complex arrays than I made out. For example

I start of with two arrays: repeating_events and events;
I preform an array merge on these two arrays.

Now, each array is an array of arrays that contrains like 12 elements.

I want to merge the two and sort them based on date. I tried what you suggested and that did not work.

This thing really has me stumpped.

I just tried this and no luck =/

$dbList = array_merge($events_to_show , $repeated_events_to_show);
for($i = 0; $i < sizeof($dbList); $i++){
	$dateArray[$i] = $dbList[$i]["event_date"];
	$eventInfo[$i] = $dbList[$i];
}
array_multisort($eventArray, "SORT_ASC", "SORT_NUMERIC", $dateArray);

event date is a unix timestamp

How else can i go about this?

Thanks

[gte806e]

Woot think i got it working!

Thanks